CrayonRosary@lemmy.world to Sync for Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-26 months agoFeature request to replace user names having giant blue letters with the corresponding normal letters. More and more people are doing it, and it's annoying.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1170arrow-down121file-text
arrow-up1149arrow-down1imageFeature request to replace user names having giant blue letters with the corresponding normal letters. More and more people are doing it, and it's annoying.lemmy.worldCrayonRosary@lemmy.world to Sync for Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-26 months agomessage-square40fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarecobysev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down7·6 months agoI saw this post way back in September last year (which was quickly removed), and have been seeing this guy’s custom name popping up everywhere since. It’s very annoying. I’m all for blocking custom characters in display names.
minus-squareBananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·6 months agoIt’s a way to complicated suggestion Instead do a sha256 of <display-name>@<domain> So veryfancyfakeuser@lemmy.fake becomes 🌈cb76aae36c😘@lemmy.fake And just to f with people add some emojis before and after.
I saw this post way back in September last year (which was quickly removed), and have been seeing this guy’s custom name popping up everywhere since. It’s very annoying. I’m all for blocking custom characters in display names.
It’s a way to complicated suggestion
Instead do a sha256 of <display-name>@<domain>
So veryfancyfakeuser@lemmy.fake
becomes
🌈cb76aae36c😘@lemmy.fake
And just to f with people add some emojis before and after.
AKA the Discord approach